This is a massive & embarrassing typo
That can’t be what Mitt had desired:
Expect a spokesman to soon announce
The person who did it has been fried.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
New Phone Device In Japan Functions As A Geiger Counter
This unique gizmo came about because
Phone consumers said what bedevils
Them was not having an accurate sense
Of the current radiation levels.
Responding to customers’ needs is all
Well and good but as this is presented
It seems this is probably destined to be
The most depressing app ever invented.
Apps can inform, entertain and amuse ---
Fans cheer each latest arrival
But the fun dissipates here as you ponder
Its potential role for survival.
If you need a geiger counter on a daily basis,
Using a modified smart phone can improve
Your state of mind but, c’mon, let’s get real:
Isn’t it probably time for you to move?
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Embittered Facebook Investors Ponder Next Move
Some are so livid that they threaten
(Metaphorically) to stab the knife.
Others are even more desperate
And may go offline to get a life.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Grave New World
This Elvis Presley artifact
If you have the space and
Inclination means you can buy
Where he rested before Graceland.
One hundred grand is the opening bid ---
That price may make you swoon.
This crypt sale will be held
In Beverly Hills in June.
You may recall the coffin of
Lee Harvey Oswald when
It was sold for $87,000
In December of 2010.
These should be classified
As morbid memorabilia.
Or (even though it isn’t a word)
I’d call them necrobilia.
Some say these items are investments.
I see them as rather foolish
Things to spend good money on ---
Call it a goulash of ghoulish.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Aide To Pope Charged Over Leaked Vatican Letters
These confidential documents have
(It’s pretty easy to agree)
Lifted the lid on alleged nepotism &
Corruption at the Holy See.
To find out who was responsible
Authorities had to borrow
The skills of Miss Jane Marple
Or perhaps even Hercule Poirot.
One might imagine old mystery standards
Would normally forbid it
But people: this is a case where it appears
The butler actually did it.
Paolo Gabriele faces serious charges ---
I’m sure it also grieves
Fans of P.G. Wodehouse to see a butler
Who is so unlike Jeeves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/26/popes-butler-charged-leaked-letters
Friday, May 25, 2012
Harvard Embarrassed Because Unabomber Had Entry In 50th Reunion Book
You probably saw this odd item which was mentioned
by many news outlets. However, the real story of Ted
Kaczynski often remains as remote as that Montana
shack he lived in for so many years.
What All Schoolchildren Learn
by Tony Peyser
“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
--- W.H. Auden
“September 1, 1939”
His mother thought her young son
might be autistic. It’s clear now he
was at the highest end of this syn-
drome & must’ve had Asperger’s.
While in the fifth grade, his IQ was
determined to be 167. His astonish-
ing intellectual skills were matched
with his profoundly lacking social
skills.
* * *
He went off to college at the tender
young age of 16. It should come as
no surprise that he didn’t fit in. It
might come as a surprise that part
of his curriculum --- over a period
of years --- was being subjected to
severe psychological tests while he
was strapped in a chair & connected
to electrodes. This research project
intentionally brutalized his already
fragile sense of self.
* * *
His violent spree went on for over a
decade, a saga of revenge & mayhem.
It’s curious he didn’t target the man
who conducted all those experiments.
That might have induced some sense
of closure or, at least, symmetry.
* * *
Here in the second decade of the 21st
century, we’re all terrified of foreign
evildoers and yet we’re so skilled at
manufacturing our own. Lee Harvey
Oswald, James Earl Ray and Timothy
McVeigh were all in the army. This
benignly named “personality study”
which transformed this unbalanced
teenager into a psychopath took place
at an acclaimed academic institution
(Harvard University
ed by the CIA. The man in charge was
Dr. Henry Murray. What he did to this
adolescent was utterly depraved. Yes,
Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. The Unabomber
should remain in prison the rest of his
life but Murray
any of his crimes, let alone charged with
anything. Mathematics was Kaczynski’s
best subject. It wasn’t mine. But even I
know that this doesn’t add up.
Romney Regrets "I Like To Fire People" Comment
This is understandable, an awful gaffe
He's trying now to edit
But like his attack on a gay classmate,
No one will forget it.
He's trying now to edit
But like his attack on a gay classmate,
No one will forget it.
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